But we got a telegram just before the tour started that forbids us from fraternising with you.’ But you guys could at least say hello once in a while.’ Andrew looked at me with a kind of sideways grin, like he was trying to decide whether to give me an honest answer or not. ‘Hey, I know this is England,’ I told him, ‘and I hear that people over here are supposed to be kind of cold. A lot of the people who’d been hanging around during the afternoon had already left or been kicked out, and as I looked around I noticed that there seemed to be a lot more young girls in the suite than when the press were hanging around earlierĪfter about three days of this, I went to their manager, Andrew Loog Oldham. We sat there with John and George until it got dark outside. John didn’t seem too upset, though, and we danced and had a great time for the rest of the night.Ī few days later the Ronettes set out on a tour of England with the Rolling Stones, but although we rode in the same bus as them, no matter what we did we couldn’t get those guys to talk to us. I knew it sounded corny, but I couldn’t think of what else to say. ‘Do you think we could go back down to the party?’ I asked. But the way things were going on that window seat, it didn’t look like it was going to stay that way for long. Romance was everything, and sex was still a mystery. I know it might seem hard to believe now, but I hadn’t done much more than kiss a guy on the lips up until then, and that included Phil. We talked about fame and kissed for a couple of minutes on a window seat that looked out over all the lights of London.įor me, that was a pretty big deal. Before I knew what was happening, John dragged me upstairs. It didn’t take me long to figure out that he liked me. Every time we’d start to dance, John would come over and say, ‘I don’t know if I’ve got this one yet, Ronnie. Somebody put on some records, and the Beatles asked us to teach them all the latest American dances.
The guys had just seen us on TV, and they couldn’t stop raving about it. ‘We loved it the first time we heard you.’
‘You’ve got the greatest voice,’ George Harrison told me. And pretty soon Phil and I were boyfriend and girlfriend The Ronettes, were signed by legendary music producer Phil Spector in March 1963. On one of our first nights there, we met the Beatles at a party in Mayfair. We must have been quite a sight in the Heathrow waiting room – three black American girls sitting with their legs all crossed the same way, our three identical, enormous hairdos piled a foot or so over our heads. We started a tour of Britain in January 1964. Our first single, Be My Baby, hit the charts in the last week of August 1963. They looked deep, like he could see right into you. Even though he was only 22, Phil already had a receding hairline and almost no chin. He wasn’t what some people would call handsome. And pretty soon Phil and I were boyfriend and girlfriend. She was the muse and would become, notoriously, the prisoner of producer husband Phil Spector.īefore she died in January at the age of 78, she updated her sensational autobiography – an astonishing glimpse into the hedonistic excesses of her rock ’n’ roll life. So regardless of what happens to the show, we thought we would take you down memory lane again to take a look at some of your favorite Wild ‘N Out snacks.As the lead singer of vocal trio the Ronettes, Ronnie Spector helped bring a hot, sexy edge to the Sixties girl-group sound. If you watch you’ll notice the lovely ladies in the crowd giving a bit of eye candy with laughs and flaunting around the crowd in scantily clad outfits. However, Cannon is also known for being surrounded by beautiful women in his show Wild ‘N Out. In previous posts, we’ve already highlighted Nick Cannon’s ability to pull in beautiful women in his personal life, like his baby mom’s Brittany Bell and model Jessica White, who, unfortunately, announced she’d be calling it quits with the megastar. It’s sad news as the show has been on air for more than 15 years, ringing in 16 fun seasons of rap battles, celebrity appearances, and some fine a$$ women. The future of Wild ‘N Outlooks grim at the moment as Nick Cannonwas recently taken off the show by CBS Viacom over anti-semitic remarks surrounding the Jewish community. Source: Paul Archuleta / Getty The Finest Wild ‘N Out Girls Ever!